Inca Garcilaso in the letters of Licentiate Franco: as a "person learned in antiquities"

Abstract

The author proposes to emphasize especially the Andalusian context in which the Inca Garcilaso writes his work, in particular by the miscegenation of its monuments (Cordoba, Granada, Seville), and the Romanism in the circle of the Inca’s friends in Cordoba, led by historian antiquarian Ambrosio Morales. The author recurs to the collective correspondence addressed to Fernández Franco, symbolizing the Classicist spirit who prefers a Roman antiquity to the other Islamic, resource that the Inca used to dignify the Incan antiquities.